Nina Attwood

The Prostitute's Body (eBook, ePUB)

Rewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Attwood examines Victorian attitudes to prostitution across a number of sources: medical, literary, pornographic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317324249
• Artikelnr.: 43419435

Autorenporträt

Nina Attwood

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'The Great Social Evil' - Representing the Victorian
Prostitute; Chapter 1 White-Washed Sepulchres and Wives of Englishmen:
William Acton's Representation of English Prostitutes; Chapter 2 From
'Masses of Rottenness' to the 'Queen's Women': The Report of the Royal
Commission (1871); Chapter 3 Mothers, Sisters and Shameless Women:
Josephine Butler and the Victorian Prostitute; Chapter 4 Mercy and Grace:
Wilkie Collins and the New Magdalen; Chapter 5 My Secret Life and the
Pornographic Representation of Prostitution; conclusion Conclusion:
Countering the Myth;